November
From: August 29, 2012 - September 23, 2012
Location: Alley Theatre
Address: 615 Texas Avenue, Houston, TX 77002
Phone:713-220-5700
As the 2012 Presidential election campaign continues, David Mamet's November offers audiences a fiendishly funny, over-the-top, no-holds-barred take on American politics. Unfolding in one day, just days before a national election and with poll numbers "lower than Gandhi's cholesterol," President Charles Smith (Alley Company Artist John Tyson), the most corrupt and inept buffoon to sit in the Oval Office, sets his sight on a second-term. With his usual acerbic wit and edgy social commentary, Mamet's latest masterpiece is a gleeful cornucopia of corruption and political incorrectness full of shady backroom schemes like Thanksgiving turkeys awaiting pardon and an American Indian lobbyist who wants to turn Nantucket into a gambling resort that will leave you laughing out loud. "Extremely funny" (The New York Times), November "rollicks from one politically incorrect punch line to the next" (San Francisco Chronicle).
Recommended for mature audiences due to language and thematic content.

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Galveston Island is a seafood lover's paradise all year round, but this September Yaga's Entertainment Inc. will bring foodies a little taste of Heaven at the Galveston Island Shrimp Festival to be held September 21-23. Featuring some of the best shrimp gumbo the Gulf Coast has to offer, this year's festival features an expanded festival area in Galveston's Historic Strand District with a FREE Boat & RV Show, 2-day Cook-Off, and more!

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Menil 25th Birthday Party
September 22, 2012 - September 22, 2012
Venue: The Menil Collection
Address: 1515 Sul Ross, Houston, TX 77006
Times: 4 p.m.
Free Admission: Yes
Neighborhood celebration of the Menil's silver anniversary on the front promenade, with birthday cake and other refreshments, music, and special guests and performances.
The Menil Collection, which opened in 1987, is commemorating its 25th Anniversary with events and programs through the end of the year. The special anniversary exhibition 'Dear John & Dominique: Letters and Drawings from the Menil Archives' and a campus tour, 'Voices of the Menil: A Cell Phone Audio Walk' are ongoing.

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